Friday, December 5, 2014

Christmas: Orono Maine 1956




The trains would roll
The streamlined F3 locomotive
would pull the Bangor and Aroostook passenger train
across Pine Street and over the Penobscot River bridge

head out of the small Maine town
and like a magnet pull us along
west across the Mississippi to
New Mexico and California   

But for now
the model train laid out in an oval
of flimsy track on linoleum floor

would have to wait the vagaries
of electric circuits in a little house
taxed to the limit by the chill

of winter air against the cracks
and fuses blowing at the demands
of Christmas lights and electric oven
glowing just above the tracks





© 2014 Frank Kearns